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Style Guide Driven Development dale.sande Comps and screen driven design is one of the greatest red herrings of app and web development. Working on medium to large scale web projects, CSS can get away from you really quickly. Without an... Beginner Frontend
Successful Drupal Contrib Projects: Some Non-Technical Tips sreynen So you wrote some code and you posted it on Drupal.org so everyone can use it. Great! Now the work begins. Writing code is only one step to making a Drupal contrib project successful, and too often... Beginner Community
CLI, the other SAPI ThijsFeryn Most developers use PHP in a web context and run their code via Apache. The command line interface (CLI) is another approach to run PHP without the overhead of your webserver.This talk not only... Intermediate Coding + Development
Reverse caching proxies: Varnish or Nginx? ThijsFeryn In a world full of scalability challenges, a reverse caching proxy has become an essential tool to protect your backend servers. This talk is dedicated to that and compares Varnish to Nginx as the 2... Intermediate DevOps
Teaching Drupal to be an LMS djdevin Drupal already has many great educational tools from content creation to assessments to surveys to crediting to certification. So how many modules does it take to build a robust Learning Management... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Varnish In Action ThijsFeryn Having trouble scaling your website? Is that new marketing campaign killing your performance? Are you using a frameork or a CMS that causes too much overhead? Give Varnish a try ! Varnish is a... Intermediate DevOps
Drush for humans: a practical guide FluxSauce Learn how site building and maintenance can benefit from Drush, the Drupal command line shell and scripting interface. Join Jon Peck, author of the lynda.com course Simplified Drupal Sites with Drush... Beginner Site Building
Drupal Bit by Bit: Quest of the Request webkenny Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a procedural system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually... Intermediate Coding + Development
Beginner's Guide to Performance! jrowny This session is for people who want to make their sites fast. REALLY FAST! Even if you're running on a leased 486 in your neighbor's basement, we can still have you serving up pages faster than you... Beginner Coding + Development
Taming Views with Themes, jQuery, and CSS jrowny With jQuery and Views you can create a wide array of useful widgets, blocks, and pages. From advanced "spreadsheet" style tables to implementing beautiful galleries, jQuery and Views is the way to go... Beginner Frontend
Your CMS is not your website: Site building for high-scale, fragmented sites with Drupal tobby A modern, high-scale Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. Sometimes, a load-balanced... Intermediate Site Building
Responsive Web Design with Sass+Compass Snugug Mobile matters. There are more than 4x the number mobile devices activated each day than there are babies born and the question of how to effectively deliver your content to everyone, regardless of... Advanced Frontend

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